skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Encryption used to be classed as a military munitions, and as such was illegal to export.

It will probably revert to that status if this kind of law is put into effect, and used for governments/military with impunity but disallowed for civilians.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Export_of_cryptography_from_th...
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Europe. Interesting about read-only prod access, over here it's a huge no-no for developers.
You're technically correct, because they use Blink, which is a descendant of WebKit.

I'd say it's about as pendantic as insisting that Windows 7 is built on top of Vista as opposed to XP. The prior statement is certainly more direct and strictly accurate, but that doesn't mean the latter statement is automatically false.
"Lemmy is similar to sites like Reddit, Lobste.rs, Raddle, or Hacker News: you subscribe to forums you're interested in, post links and discussions, then vote, and comment on them. Behind the scenes, it is very different; anyone can easily run a server, and all these servers are federated (think email), and connected to the same universe, called the Fediverse.

For a link aggregator, this means a user registered on one server can subscribe to forums on any other server, and can have discussions with users registered elsewhere."

Time for them to spin up a Lemmy server?

https://lemmy.ml/docs/en/index.html

wallstreetlemmi.ng maybe?
Yeah you can encrypt your connection to the server where you store your mail. But don't think about encrypting your mail.
for me it worked. Perhaps they did a maintenance.
I miss the time in my life where I could still believe this.

The overwhelming majority of people in prison, who have had existing laws enforced against them aren't violent, even though that's what the laws they "broke" claimed to be trying to prevent when they were passed too.

"Crime" is in the eye of the powerful. "Stopping criminals" sounds fine until you realize who they consider "criminals" and how capricious that is.
John Rockefeller purchased an incredible amount of land for Grand Teton National Park, all under the guise of various shell companies. This is because if word got out he was trying to purchase the land, people would have raised the price.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Teton_National_Park#Esta...
It's not just Tesla, either. There are a number of stocks that are grossly overvalued right now when you look at fundamentals. Lots of people have been talking here & everywhere else for the better part of the past year about how the Fed is printing money and it's all going into a stock bubble. Oh yeah, and cryptocurrencies.

This GME thing is just one little piece of an overall new zeitgeist. I'm not about to even try to predict the next crash/bubble-pop, though. I just don't have the stomach for this kind of market. When a change comes, it may not happen in a predictable way. I think there's at least a chance we could somewhat be in uncharted territory here.
Not just their phones but their iPads as well. I replaced my parents five year old iPad Airs and the new ones have both image stabilization along with a fifty percent increase in pixels. There is also a lot of improvement to color accuracy.

the image stabilization features of phones and tablets cannot be under estimated
Wow. First the Discord ban and then this - clearly the billionaire hedge fund managers have been busy pulling strings overnight.

Limiting it so you can't buy, you can only sell... Very clearly helping the hedge funds here.
The problem with E2E+G is not technical, it is political. It can be done in a way that it would only be practical for the government to use it rarely (E.g., [1]) and only for cases where there is a broad consensus that it is being used Constitutionally (or whatever is equivalent outside the US).

But getting Congress (or whatever is equivalent outside the US) to pass an E2E+G law that allows it to be done in such a way seems unlikely. They will go for a way that allows broad use.

[1] You could make it a per-device key, generated on the device itself. The device makes the Shamir secret sharing shares, encrypts them with the public keys of the shareholders, and periodically includes those includes those in the chat metadata.

To decrypt a chat, the government needs to record it, get the encrypted shares out of the chat metadata, get each shareholder to use that shareholder's private key to decrypt their share and then contribute that share for recovery of the actual chat key for that chat.

If they want to decrypt a chat from another device, they'd have to do that all over again for that device.
Interactive Brokers now blocking purchase call and put options (even to institutional investors!) on $GME, you can only close a position.

On the other side, Robinhood is asking for account to be funded with cash to execute the calls at expiration, or else they will liquidate your position :|
Not a fan of the Reddit wsb movement but not sure this is a justified move by Robinhood. You gotta let things play out by the rules of the game
This sort of stuff will put people more and more on edge, there is the deplatforming going on, people asserted their power financially, and now getting that removed too, the powers that rule USA don't realize that soon the only tool left to common people is violence?

Even more with some irresponsible newspapers blaming the whole thing on GamerGate and Alt-Right, effectively pushing away people that previously could be on their side.
Who Uses Django and Why You Should Too
> Agreed, but sounds like the issue is the politicians and the government, not rich people.

Are we going to pretend that a nation-state's intelligence agency(ies) aren't some of FB's biggest clients? Are you not aware how the 5-Eyes program works at all?

FB gladly hand over the details of those Q-anon imbeciles on their platform with no resistance, they then proceeded to censor and de-platform anyone who didn't follow the narrative and even went after people who had nothing to do with politics in the last wave of bans.

And you don't think these 'rich people' aren't beholden to the State and its surveillance economy, of which they are just one part of the apparatus?

Corruption begets corruption: and many of these rich people (specifically CEOs of FAANG) are not without blood on their hands, playing 'whose worse' is like saying the one to actually kill Ceaser was the last to deliver the final blow on the Senate floor as he laid in a pool of his own blood. (Ceaser was a tyrant and deserved to die, just so its clear.)

I would argue the very Nation-State model is to blame, its a total cesspool; and this type of cronyism is prevalent in this model which rewarded a few (like, but limited, to Zuck) who acquiesced when they State showed up with bags of money for them to play along for these exact events.
"Free marketeers declare markets a little too free for their tastes"
I've been really enjoying watching this whole thing pan out but you had to know that the 'professional capitalists' who brought us the economic crisis in 2009 would close ranks and appeal to the SEC to save them from the vicious retail investors. Robin Hood doesn't want to be banished to the proverbial wastelands because their customers are more clever than some hedge fund operators.
I don't blame Github here, their WHOLE spiel is open collaboration for community software projects. If want to share your project online but don't want to engage with your users as peers, then GitHub was never the right place to post the repo anyway.
An internet community is "somebody" with a selfish interest that might go against the interest of the wider public.
Same with TD Ameritrade. Fidelity seems to still allow trading for now.

I guess the simultaneous outage wasn’t coincidental. Fidelity did not suffer and outage. I could be wrong but Vanguard was fine too

EDIT

Robinhood's customer(s) are hedge funds like Citadel. I believe it was Citadel who offered Melvin Capital a lifeline. I wonder what the rationale is for TD Ameritrade, and the others?
Don't the ToS include a waiver of taking any legal action against RH, class action suits in particular, and a binding arbitration clause in case you really want to make some noise?
forgive my ignorance, but why are these browsers based on chromium only? cant they build on firefox codebase just like palemoon and basilisk, waterfox, seamonkey, iceweasel?

if these small browsers can be working products with bare minimum staff, why cant vivaldi or opera or whatever do the same? is it because of "oh, firefox bad" thing ? or something else?
Don’t forget they can’t buy shares without someone selling them. So if they have bought so many shares back there’s only 2 left, these two people each control 50% of the company and aren’t going to sell that share (for a small amount)
It's absolutely paternalism, IMO. I'm less sure whether I think it's a good thing or not (because I think people buying new positions in GME at this point are unlikely to end up happy about that in mid-Feb.)

I'm all for "let 'em play" in general but this is not going to end well for a lot of folks...
> ...resolution on security through encryption and security despite encryption

People in government, be it in the EU or elsewhere, have a different idea of what privacy means and a citizen having privacy from state powers is antithetical to it. EU mopes believe their own marketing material regarding privacy, which is why the above phrase can be found in a Council publication, along with the always present "competent law enforcement". Nevermind that when it comes our privacy, a competent law enforcement officer is as much a mythical being as is an "ordinary citizen" who has nothing to fear or hide.

The Council is tasked with "setting" the agenda for the EU. The latest one is from last summer and the first item in it reads "protecting citizens and freedoms". That is exactly how I would imagine someone working at the Council to think of the act of stripping their "fellow" citizens of their privacy, while convinced that they're the good guy. There is no privacy without encryption today. As soon as you mandate that someone with special powers has to have the ability to force their way in and read the thoughts I exchange then you'll have killed privacy. It doesn't matter who that person is, it doesn't matter how you justified it and it doesn't matter what the consequences of privacy are.

We don't yet know what the "regulatory framework" (kill me please) will look like but whatever it is I don't think it's far fetched to expect things like running a Tor relay to get you in trouble, running an IRC server over TLS will be lots of fun too, and so on and so on. How long till you're required to have a license to run nc -l 1234? I'm sure it will be a decade or two but eventually that's where we'll be.
Talking about the PR tab, that page is hella unreliable lately. It hides being unreliable by putting some page load progress bar on top of the page. That progress stalls at 95%. Then you need to click again to retry. On bad days it breaks >50% of the time.

Seriously, that progress bar is hiding the read problem here: some timeout of a 50X error or something. We --GH users-- are devs! We know that your hiding this, it's not very respectful I think.

Oh, and, we pay for GH.
I'm very interested in the Freestyle Libre 3 and the order-from-Germany approach. They don't list the model on their website yet: https://www.freestylelibre.de/libre/produkte.html so I can't check the price.

Can you call on the phone and order? Also how does it work about shipping internationally? Do they ship to Croatia or do you need to ship to a DE address first, then FWD to Croatia. Contact info in profile. If you can send me any info or tips, I would greatly appreciate.
It's not a slur. It's just part of their humour. Are we into telling people what they can and can't say within their own private groups now?
Yes, it will come back. We have so many things in our plate that not everything can be acted upon in a timely manner. Don't despair :-)
How would you even do that ? I doubt any criminal organization just trust the platform for encrypting their data, they do it themselves using well known algorithms that have no backdoors.
People who seriously want to encrypt will always be able to do it, you can hide data in pictures, files whatever and have a custom algorithm to reassemble it if you want.
The only one who will lose is the user who do not really care, being now more weak to man in the middle attack. That is the majority with data that cause no threat.
> These laws will not be legal under US law, because US congress is not permitted to make a law abridging an act of speaking, or expressing an idea, or opinion.

It can probably be written in such a way that this style of speech can be argued through the new law to fall under some of the exceptions, perhaps incitement or fraud.
The head of NASDAQ even suggested a Tradimg Halt so institutions can adjust to combat retail investors better!
It hosted cperl and rperl, which are important. Perl5, as you might not know is not developed anymore, it's only maintained into oblivion, getting worse and worse over time. 20 years no new features, only design mistakes over mistakes piling up. perl11 provided the continuation of Perl development, but the maintainers in their tunnel vision do not agree (yet). Almost everything they did in the last 6 years came from cperl, but it's still only 10%.

Now it's on perl11.github.io

When the squatters give up, fine, but GitHub served us well over the years. Better than everyone else, esp. Google.
> yet that front door was never used by hackers like everyone suggests government backdoors would be used.

Would you hear about it if it had?

If the US military collaborated with Apple, Google, or Microsoft on a classified project to abuse the autoupdate mechanisms everyone leaves enabled to exec code using their certificates on some military target (leaving aside for the moment that a "military target" is whoever the military says it is and includes people like Snowden), why on Earth do you think that any of the involved parties would ever speak of it?

It's reputational poison; everyone would keep that as quiet as humanly possible.

We know Apple is willingly collaborating with the FBI to avoid encrypting people's device backups, and that's for domestic traffic as well. They work with the CCP and run special backdoored servers there to be permitted to offer iCloud/iMessage services in China.

The Apple software update system can target specific computers by MAC address - fact, today, not speculation.

Why do you think it would be known if they offered this sort of assistance?

It would likely even be illegal for them to divulge it, for various reasons, depending on how they were asked. FISA spying orders and FBI wiretaps already are.
Another QtWebEngine based browser is Falkon[1], part of the KDE project. It works well for most websites which stick to standard web development practices, has built-in ad blocker and the reason to use it would be in memory constrained environments as QtWebEngine seems to be quite memory efficient.

But the development is slow, last major release was in Mar 2019.

[1]https://userbase.kde.org/Falkon
Would love to hear more about those problems. Have you opened GH issues / community posts?
Yes, the idea is that the effort isn't really eliminated. It's just shifted from reviewing the code to reviewing the new tests, which sometimes can be just as hard as reviewing the code when complex bugs are involved.
Also if you do not accept contributions you can easily perform a license change later.
If there’s an actual generic (e.g. Naproxen Sodium :: Alleve), then your doctor just has to ensure that the Rx isn’t “fill as written”. The pharmacist can then offer you options (Namebrand at X times 5 or generic at X)

If it’s the case where there’s an older generic and a newer product still under patent, that’s a discussion with your doctor: Is the newer product worth the money, or should I stick with the older thing?
Yes. And even with them around. All depends on the context and the willingness to get one's nose bopped.

I would, for example, encourage an actor to use overly offensive expletives, even repeating them ad nauseam in the presence of their fellow actors so they feel more comfortable using such words in a production dealing with racial strife, historical storytelling or what have you.

No word is so beyond the pale it must be Voldemorted.
Lightning fast. Does the job.
At the beginning of the presentation, a slide showed the similarities between IDEs. For whatever reason, it reminded me of the setup for every intro to Smalltalk presentation I've been through. Sure enough, Glamorous Toolkit was written in Pharo, and seems to really bring a lot of the smalltalk like tooling to other languages ... and wraps it up with a notebook style UI. It's the most interesting Smalltalk thing I've seen in a while.
I’m afraid that FB censorship is benign compared to what’s going on with WSB, Twitter,
etc.
I think anyone that has spent even a second on YouTube recognizes that this crowd is much large and diverse than this.
Does adding more visible tabs solves the problem of having too many tabs? If not, what is it for?
This is not going to end nicely.
> I've been told the environmental impact of human-biting mosquitoes going extinct would be minor

I've heard that too. I'm pretty sure we really don't know. Our understanding of entire ecosystems isn't that complete, by a long way.
What kind of shitty ass union are you paying 1% of your earnings every year? Here in Denmark I am paying less that $50 a month, where I save more on insurance each month than I pay in union dues, as well as the union dues being tax deductible.
I wonder if this is just for after hours trading. You would think the user could at least place an order for execution when the market opens.

GME was up over $100 pre-market when I got up this morning, so someone somewhere is buying.
Almost certainly. Don't expect the SEC to step in here, either.
I guess we should also label George Washington a terrorist.
> We're still trying to unravel this and I can't get into details. However, it looks like there was an account hack. I don't know how long that would take to rewind. We're looking for people who have actual experience dealing with that situation so we can dispute the transfer. If you've actually gone through thatprocess, please get in touch.

> The perl.org and perl.com domains are unrelated and have different rightful registrants, so this doesn't affect perl.org.

briandfoy 1 hour ago

https://www.reddit.com/r/perl/comments/l6d8ws/perlcom_unfrie...
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Oh, speaking of cryptocurrencies I recently came across with this article.

https://www.metzdowd.com/pipermail/cryptography/2020-Decembe...
I agree. This seems like illegal market manipulation on the part of Robinhood.
To be fair, if they'd actually somehow achieved that (changing it to something nice and round like 3, or 10), it would have made mental maths a lot easier.
I asked this once, and people told me it had something to do with firefox being a PITA to compile, among other things
SourceForge is still around, but since they were caught adding adware/malware to downloads (2015, I think), I wouldn't trust them at all.
That means the market works to that end to some degree. "Not ideal" is very different from "let's allocate capital randomly"
In my experience, 90 days is very common in B2B. Though I wouldn't be surprised to learn that it varies by industry.
This is the perfect opportunity for another platform to step up and welcome traders. Robinhood will be on damage control.
Having just put down two pets with costly late in life medical conditions I'm kicking myself for not getting health insurance. We were able to afford most recommended procedures but not many can. In fact, there are several programs locally for people who can't pay for their vet bills which I've considered contributing to now that I've seen first-hand the anguish people have to face when considering procedures they can't afford for animals they love like children.
> With or without EU's snooping what is more likely to happen is that people will migrate to messaging systems that the EU

historic legislation and these plans suggest that there will be 2 forms of encryption: 1) Legal 2) Illegal.

it doesn't matter if some niche technologies exist if people are unable to access them. even if they could they would not feel strongly enough to "break the law".

This push has been noticeable only to specialists in the field (and the push is also unevenly distributed) but been ongoing in all 9-eye countries.

France implemented snooping charter in 2015 by changing their constitution (using Charlie Hebdo[1] as excuse), the UK is on par with the US and needs no introduction, Australia has the AAbill[1] criminalizing employees if they do not act as moles in companies, Germany has its Bundestrojaner etc etc ... Australia is especially interesting as it is a tiny population and used as a test-bed for more salty US propaganda and to see what can be learned (in terms of messaging) before applied to a wider basis (e.g. one that is later always rolled out to the rest of the countries in the pact)

All of them are driven by US interests and pressure (anyone wanting to become a member of the many eyes is well advised to implement SIGINT technologies and laws to facilitate Western espionage on their citizens.

Public outcry won't matter, nobody cares because why would a sane person not working in Tech even think about topics like encryption - when this is all just to "catch the bad guys" and "only bad guys have something to hide anyway".

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-surveillance/frenc...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_surveillance_in_Australia
Artificial Intelligence can help charge EV
Is having a clause like that in your ToS legal?
They have not "raked in" that amount. It is just that their position is at that value. And if they start selling, they are not likely to make $2.4B because the markets will not be able to absorb so much liquidity.
While I have no problem with copyleft licenses (at least those approved by the OSI) and in fact think that they should probably use the AGPL, I commend them for sticking to their guns and commitment to open source.
If you believe what is happening is wrong, it needs to be regulated so that it doesn't happen. If you believe it's not wrong, it shouldn't be either regulated nor educated against.

Now, if you do believe it's wrong and it should be educated against, how would this work? Do you think that this is wrong beacsue people are going to lose money? Maybe then it makes some sense to give better education, but this is obviously a special moment and it's hard to educate people so that they don't engage in a social phenomenon. Not to mention, a lot of educated people may be making some pretty educated bets and winning a lot of money; other educated people may just be 'paying' money for a cause that they believe in.
Pretty staggering hubris from the company whose shoddy software used to offer "infinite leverage"[0] to make themselves the self-appointed guardians of responsible investing.

Maybe one of these newly-minted millionaires can cash out and use their gains to sue.

[0] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-11-05/robinhood...
In the night, GME went from 350 to 250 USD as well; this was when Discord had been banned and the Reddit suspended (both for moderation / hate speech issue).

The variations are extreme, in the morning it was hitting 500 USD in the morning, and now 400 USD.
oh no, but what happened to the free market? this is censorship /s
Robinhood is looking for a near term IPO. Who will take their stock public? Daddy told them to delist and they complied.
Kind of. Archiving means you can't commit to it either, from what I know. Mirroring doesn't necessarily mean that you can't contribute to it, it just means you can't contribute to it on GitHub.